{"id":161227,"date":"2025-09-26T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161227\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:50:06","slug":"ww2-bunker-conversion-in-guernsey-up-for-architecture-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161227\/","title":{"rendered":"WW2 bunker conversion in Guernsey up for architecture award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former German bunker that was transformed into a three-bedroom home has been shortlisted for an architecture award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bunker Six Eighty One, which overlooks Rocquaine Bay, is nominated for the Conversion of the Year Award in the Architectural Technology Awards.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Built in 1942 as part of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s Atlantic Wall defences, the bunker was originally designed to house 12 soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those behind the project, which was completed in 2024 after five years, said it was thought to be the only World War Two bunker to have been fully converted into a home in the British Isles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former German bunker that was transformed into a three-bedroom home has been shortlisted for an architecture award.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-161227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}